Wednesday, 5/24/00
Vocabulary Pretest  **  Finish "ASOT" silently. ** Q/A in notebook. I return research rough drafts and conference. (First 10/10 = exempt, 16/16=exempt +2, 15/16= +4, etc.)

1. The policeman refused the gangster's offer of ____ to "look the other way."
2. After his accident in the fire, he needed skin _______(s) because of the severity of his burns.
3. Because of a trick of the light, his head seemed to have a bright orange __________ emanating from it.
4. To us the world seems so huge, but it is merely a(n) ____________ speck in the gigantic universe.
5. The joke was so _______, I had to think twice before I got it.
6. "And the caveman, please note, is not just any __________ man, no! He is an entire future nation.
7. Kids who develop the quality of ____ are able to cope when things go bad.
8. He was a very ________, very confident public speaker, he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
9. "Then I ________ our arrival in the Past so that we meet the monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway."
10. The hotel bed was too ____________, and I had a backache the next mourning. I needed a firmer matress.

resilient, resilience, graft, poised, correlate, expendable, infinitesimal, aurora, subtle

1. again throw
2. again carry person (Maybe it's because they "carry" the story to you.)
3. around standing things (These are the conditions that already exist.)
4. toward throw thing (It's something you work toward.)
5. inside stand place
6. make place